Name: Helen Klein
Occupation: retired nurse
Residence: Rancho Cordova, CA
Running Club: ?
Age: 77 (DOB 11/27/22)
Significant ultras:
11/11/00 6:10:24 19 Helen Klein 50k
11/12/99 11:56:54 92 Helen Klein 50m
1/24/98 7:47:30 50 Forest of Nisene Marks
12/12/98 12:25:25 258 Sunmart 50m
12/ 6/98 4:31:05 Cal. Intl. 26.2m (1st F7X)
11/14/98 6:10:32 22 Helen Klein 50k
9/12/98 12:02:06 50 Baldy Peaks 50k
8/ 2/98 7:47:44 214 Skyline 50k
7/19/98 7:56 Fleet Feet Capitol Mile (F70+ CR)
6/13/98 7:09:01 46 Dam Run & Relay
6/ 6/98 8:25:05 105 Shadow of the Giants 50k
5/16/98 10:46:21 63 Silver State 50k
5/ 9/98 12:43:49 52 Quicksilver 50m
4/ 4/98 11:43:54 458 American River 50m
2/ 7/98 28:52:08 Rocky Racoon 100m
12/13/97 6:36:44 Sunmart 50k
12/ 7/97 4:31:45 CIM 26.2m (American age record)
11/27/97 :53:23 ? 10k (American age record)
11/15/97 5:51:35 32 Helen Klein 50k
8/ 3/97 7:08:47 190 Skyline 50k (age group record)
5/17/97 10:18:45 70 Silver State 50k (age group record)
4/26/97 10:48:06 52 California Endurance 50m
12/14/96 6:54:25 348 Sunmart Texas Trails 50k
4/27/96 12:20:14 69 California Endurance 50m
5/ 8/93 7:27;26 107 Quicksilver 50k
6/__/92 29:36:32 218 Western States 100m
8/ 3/91 56+m 19 BAUR 12hr
9/__/89 31:24:02 Angeles Crest 100m
9/__/89 34:21:53 Wasatch Front 100m
8/19/89 29:25:55 130 Leadville 100m
7/29/89 24:59:55 76 Vermont 100m
6/__/89 29:25:03 229 Western States 100m
6/__/85 29:51:11 Western States 100m
10/14/84 10:54:15 164 AMJA Ultra 50m
7/ 7/84 29:19:__ Western States 100m
6/ 2/84 13:13:00 53 Nugget 50m
5/13/84 11:12:48 87 Cal Enduro 50m
4/15/84 10:20:55 286 American River 50m
2/19/84 9:01:37 74 Jed Smith 50m
10/ 2/83 9:53:45 144 AMJA Ultra 50m
3/26/83 10:37:10 18 Mississippi 50m
3/27/82 9:28:57 23 Mississippi 50m (1st F)
4/25/81 10:47:17 12 Skagit Valley 50m
Other significant facts:
- 65-69 age group world record holder for 6-day road (354 miles, 1584 yards)
- 70-74 age group world record holder for 6-day road (373 miles)
- 65-69 age group world record holder for 24hr track (109 miles, 880 yards)
- 70-74 age group world record holder for 24hr road (102 miles, 1300 yards)
- 65-69 age group world record holder for 100 mile track (21:03:01)
- 70-74 age group world record holder for 100 mile (23:29:34)
- 70-74 age group world record holder for 100 km (12:50:49)
- 70-74 age group world record holder for 50 mile road (9:55:09)
- 70-74 age group world record holder for 50 km road (5:44:04)
- 75 world and American records for age group and single age categories:
- 50k, 50m, 100k, 100m, 24h, 48h, 5 day and 6 day
- completed 101 ultras
- completed 49 marathons
- Apr/May 95 completed Marathon Des Sables, a 145 mile stage race
- two weeks later completed 370 mile Eco Challenge
- in summer of '89 (at age 66), completed the Grand Slam, plus a 5th 100
- oldest person to finish WS100, LT100, WF100, OD100 and AC100
- oldest woman to finish VT100
- ran the 100 mile 5-day stage race in the Himalayas in 1993
- official finisher of Ironman Triathlon
- 1991 world record for 500k, running across Colorado in 5 days, 10 hours
- 1992 recipient of Master Card's Master of the Marathon Award
- co-Race Director of Western States 100 and Sunmart Texas Trail 50